NameThatPlant.net: Oxalis macrantha

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Oxalidales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Oxalis macrantha FAMILY Oxalidaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Sadie Price’s Yellow Wood-sorrel at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oxalis priceae ssp. priceae FAMILY Oxalidaceae

COMMON NAME:
Sadie Price’s Yellow Wood-sorrel

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Oxalis macrantha FAMILY Oxalidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oxalis priceae ssp. priceae FAMILY Oxalidaceae

3469

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Rich woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina

Rare (historically in NC, but not recently seen)

CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

LEAVES:
Ternately compound: 3 leaflets
Alternate & basal

FLOWER:
Spring
Yellow (with strong red lines in corolla throat)
Radially symmetrical
5 sepals
5 petals
10 stamens, of 2 lengths

Flowers (1)3-8 in umbelliform cymes well above the leaves

FRUIT:
Spring

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